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OF   THE 


STATE  EDUCATIONAL  ASSOCIATION, 


OF  NORTH  CAROLINA. 


GREENSBORO: 

PRINTED   AT   THE    "WORLD"   OFFICE:    BY   JAMES    W.    AUIRICTIT. 

1862. 


THE 


CONSTITUTION 


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AND 


ACT  OF  INCORPORATION 


OF   THE 


&TATE  EDUCATIONAL  ASSOCIATION, 


OF  NORTH  CAROLINA. 


GREENSBORO : 

PRINTED  AT   THE   "WORLD"  OFFICE:   BY  JAMES  W.  ALBRIGHT. 

1862. 


STATE   EDUCATIONAL  ASSOCIATION 

OF  NORTH  CAROLINA. 
OIFLCSV-^IKrXSSIEZD  -5L.  X>-  1806,; 

QUARTERED  FEBRUARY  23,  1861; 


CONSTITUTION. 

Art.  T.  This  Association  shall  be  called  the  State  Educational 
Association  of  North  Carolina. 

Art.  II.  The  objects  of  this  Association  shall  be,  to  promote  the 
mutual  improvement  of  its  members,  and  to  advance  the  education- 
al and  literary  inter*  sti  tate. 

Art.  III.  The- officers  of  this  Association  shall  consist  of  a  Pres- 
ident, six  vice  Presidents,  a  cprrespondi]  iry*,  and  a  Record- 
ing Secretary,  to  be  elected  ai  the  ri  rular  annual  n  nd  to 
serve  for  one  year,  or  until  their  sugce  sors  be  chosen. 

Art.  iv.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  President  to  preside  and  pre- 
serve order  at  the  nicotines  of  tl  iation.  1>ut  in  the  absence 
or  inability  of  the  J  Vesiditmr,  one  of  the  vice  Fri  shallper- 
form  his  d  n1 ;- 

Art.  y.  The  corresponding  Secretary  shall  conduct  the  correspon- 
dence of  the  Association.  He  shall  also  act  as  Treasurer,  and  dis- 
charge all  such  duties  as  may  be  devolved  on  him  by  law. 

Art.  vi.  The  recording  Secretary  shall  keep  a  faithful  record  of 
the  Constitution,  By  Laws,  and  proceeding  of  the  Association  :  he 
shall  preserve  such  papers  as  may  be  committed  to  his  care,  and  he 
shall  superintend  the  publication  of  such  documents  as  the  Associa- 
tion may  designate. 

Art.  vii.  The  Superintendent  of  Common  Schools  in  North 
Carolina  nod  the  Secretaries  of  the  Aesociation  shall  he  an  Execu- 
tive Committee,  to  execute  the  orders  and  attend  |o  #<a  general  in- 
terests of  the  Association  during   the  interval.'-  between  meetings. 

Art.  VIII,  The  Association  shall  meet  annually  at  such  f,mo  and 
place  as  the  Executive  Committee  may  select.  But  the  President, 
upon  the  Requisition  of  the  Executive  Committee,  shall  call  special 
meeting  i,  at  su<  h  times  and  places  as  said  committee  may  det,  rminc; 
and  no  business  shall  be  transacted  at  such  meetings  but  that  for 
which  they  arc  specially  called. 

Art.  ix.  Twelve  members  from  four  different  counties  shall  be  a 
quorum  to  transact  business  at  any  meeting  of  the  Association, 

Art.  x.  Any  resident  of  Xorth  Carolina  may  be  elected  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Association  by  a  majority  of  the  members  :  but  the  name 


of  each  applicant  must  first  be  proposed,  accompanied  by  a  state- 
ment of  his  county,  post  office  and  pursuit ;  and  the  name  of  nq 
person  shall  be  enrolled  as  a  member,  until  he  shall  have  paid  on# 
^dollar  into  the  treasury  of  the  Association. 

Art.  xi.  Each  member  shall  be  required  to  pay  one  dollar  annu- 
ally into  the  treasury  of  the  Association. 

Art.  xii.  Any  person,  by  the  payment  of  twenty  dollars,  may  be- 
come a  member  of  the  Association  for  life,  and,  without  the  pay* 
ment  of  annual  fees,  shall  eujoy  all  the  privileges  of  membership 
and  also  receive  regularly  a  copy  of  the  N.  C.  Journal  of  Educar 
tion. 

Art.  xiii.  No  money  shall  be  paid  by  the  Treasurer  except  by 
order  of  the  Executive  Committee. 

Art.  xiv.  At  the  commencement  of  each  annual  meeting  the 
President  shall  deliver  an  address  on  such  subject,  or  subjects,  as 
he  may  think  important  for  the  Association  to  consider. 

Art.  xv.  No  article  of  this  constitution  shall  be  altered  except 
Jjy  a  vote  of  two-thirds  of  the  members  present  at  a  regular  annual 
meeting. 


BY-LAWS. 


I.  There  shall  be  six  Standing  committees  appointed,  by  the  Pres- 
ident, at  each  annual  meeting  of  the  Association.  These  commit- 
tees shall  consist  of  five  members  each,  except  the  last  which  shall 
consist  of  three,  and  shall  be  called:  1.  Committee  on  Common 
Schools  ;  2.  Committee  on  Journal  of  Education  ;  3.  Committee  on 
Essays  and  Lectures ;  4.  Committee  on  Educational  Statistics ;  5. 
Committee  on  Military  Schools;    6.   Auditing  Committee. 

JI.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  these  Committees,  in  addition  to  any 
special  business  from  time  to  time  committed  to  them,  to  make  to 
each  meeting  of  the  Association  such  reports,  suggestions  and  recom- 
mendations, on  the  subjects  in  regard,  to  which  they  are  appointed, 
as  they  shall  deem  important. 

JII.  The  committee  on  Essaj  s  and  Lectures  sliall,  each  year,  se- 
lect not  more  than  three  persons  to  deliver  Essays  before  the  Associ- 
ation, and,  \{  the  subjects  for  the  Assays  are  not  determined  by  the, 
Association,  the  committee  may  select  them. 

IV.  The  Association,  at  each  meeting,  shall  select  a  subject  fo,r 
discussion  and  decision  at  the  next  annual  meeting,   and  shall  ap? 


point  a  committee,  of  not  less  than  three  nor  more  than  five,  to 
bring  it  before  the  meeting  by  report  or  reports. 

V.  The  order  of  business  shall  be  as  follows  : 

1.  Calling  the  roll  and  reading  the  minutes  of  the  preceeding 
meeting. 

2.  Admission  of  members, 

3.  Reports  of  Committees, 

4.  Motions  and  Resolutions, 

5.  Special  orders. 

6.  Unfinished  business:  and  it  shall  require  a  vote  of  two  thirds  of 
the  members  present,  when  objection  is  made,  to  take  up  any  busi- 
ness out  of  its  regular  order. 

VI.  Any  member  may  call  for  the  ayes  and  jioes  to  be  recorded, 
on  any  pending  question. 

VII.  The  session  of  the  Association,  for  each  day,  shall  be  open- 
ed and  closed  with  prayer. 

VIII.  The  original  mover  of  any  resolution,  that  shall  have  pass- 
ed the  house,  shall  reduce  the  same  to  writing  and  hand  it  to  the 
Secretary. 

IX.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Treasurer  to  keep  a  regular  ac* 
count  with  each  member  of  the  Association  :  and  to  submit  his  re* 
port,  with  books  and  vouchers,  to  the  Auditing  .Committee  for  exam* 
ination,  before  each  annual  meeting. 

X.  The  Treasurer  shall  place  in  the  hands  of  the  Recording  Sec- 
retary his  bond,  with  approved  security,  in  the  sum  of  one  thousu.d 
dollars;  for  the  faithful  discharge  of  his  official  duties. 


M  ACT  TO  INCORPORATE 

THE    STATE    EI>rCATIONAL    ASSOCIATION    OF    X.    0. 

uox.    1.   Be  it- enacted  hy  the  General  Asscfnbhj  of  the  State  of 
North  (  i  audit  is  hereby  enacted  by  the  authority  of  the  saute, 

That  the  State  \         iatj   n  of  &Tor.tlr  Caroling  as  organ- 

ized by  a  voluntary  society  in  the  town  of  Salisbury;  oil  the  2- 1st  clay 
of  October,  A.  1>.  18i?0,  and  whose  organization  wi  l;  perfect- 

ed at  the  annual  meeiihgheld  in  "War  rent  oil  ort  the  first  day  of  July 
1857.  in  Statesville  on  the  7th  day  of  July,  f$5:S,  in  Sewfrcrn  on  the 
day  of  3une,  1       >,  a  id  in  Wilmington  on  NovemLcv  13.  \&(>6, 
shall  1  reb'y    incorporated  under  the  name,  ar^d 

style  of  "The  i  iation   >f  North  Carolina,"  and 

may  have  and  ■union  seal,  sue  and  bo  sued,    and  cake,    bold 

and  c  d  personal  pro]    rty  of  the  value  of  twenty  thous- 

and dollar:',  and  no  mor  ■  •  -■  hereinafter  specified. 

SEC.    2.    And  Ic  it  fur,  fcthe  said  society  may  adopt 

forits  government  i   <    i  jtituth  laws,  not  incoi  :  gvith 

the  consti  L    ,  State   n*  of  the  Unitcct  States,  and 

shall,  according  t@  the  provisions  of  these,  annually  elect  a  president, 
six  vi  .  .  a  record  nd  a  corresponding  secre- 

tary irer  in  one,  all  of    whom  shall  hold  their  office,    until 

their  i       •  rnted,  and  tbe  said  society  shall  have  a  per- 

manent executive  committ:-  Pthe  sujperintencl- 

ent  i  bonis   ancl  tl  rding    arid  corn   ponding  secre- 

taries, and  whose  powei  shall  he  prescril  ed  in  tbe  con- 

and  by~h  ociety. 

row.  3.   And  Le  it  -further  enact*   \  Xi  it  it  shall  be  tbe  duty  of  the 
State  Educational  Assoi   a1        oi   X<         Carolina   to  hfaid  an  annual 
meeting  at  such  place  and  time,  as  the  executive  committee,  or  others 
LOiized  by  the  constitution  and  by-laws  so  to  do.  shall  direet  :  at 
which  meeting  some  questions  connected  with  the  cause   of  education 
shall  be  disci]  seel  and  decided,  and  at  which    shall  be  delivered  ad- 
dresses and  essays  intended  to  promote  tbe  progress  of  useful   learn- 
ing in  the  State,  and  to  diffuse  ini    .:   ation  a  people  ;    and 
the  1                igs  of  these  meetings,  and  such  esi  ayg  as  tjic  ^ssoeiation 
deem  proper,  shall  be  published  in  pamphlet  form,  one  copy  of 
jvhich  shall  be  sent  to  the  executive  library,    and  one  to  tbe  library 
pf  the  State  in  Raleigh;  one  to  each  of  the  collego-u  male  and  female, 
in  the  State  :  one  to  the  chairman    of  each  board   of  county  superb;- 


teadents  of  eo&mon  schools,  to  be  filed  in  his  office,  and  one  to  eaeli 

committee  of  examination. 

Sec.  4.  And  be  if  further  enacted,  That  the  said  Association  shall 
have  at  least  two  s  ":,  one  to  be  called  "The  Com- 

mittee on  Comnipn  Schools,"    and  one  "The   Committee  on  Statis- 
tics," which    committees  shall,   ironi  time  to  time, 
the  association  on  the  sul  n  which  they  are  appointed. 

Sec.  5.  And  be  itfurther  >  n  '■'■  7,  Th  ii  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
superintendent  of  cqrnm  ds  for  the  State,  to  notify  the  chair* 

men  of  the  boards  of  superintendents  of  conn  ,  '  3  and  the  ex- 

amining committees,  and  the  president  and  directors  of  the  literary 
fund,  at  least  fifteen  days  in  advance  of  the  time  and  place  of  each 
annual  meeting  of  the  association,  to  make  an  annual  address  before 
it  sotting  forth  the  condition,  wants  and  prospects  of  the  common 
school  system,  to  aid  in  directing  its  deliberations  and  action  to  use- 
ful purpo.<  ctcd  with  the  cam  .  nd  to 
exert  himself  to  prcvont^tfj  litical  bias  in 
it  -  pr  iceedim 

.    Sec.  C.  Beit  fur  flier  enacts  1,  That  said  a  relation  shall  have] 
lished  ui  .    periodical   to  be  called  "The 

North  Carolina  Journal  of  Education,"  to  be  conducted  by  such  per- 
sons, reel  00  such  terms  as  it  or  its  authorized  committees  may  see 
fit ;  and  the  first  named  of  the  board  of  editors  shall  be  the  superin- 
tendent of  common  schools  for  the  State,  whe  shall  publish  in  said 
journal  such  of  his  official  decisions  as  he  may  deem  of  general  inter- 
est ;  his  animal  letters  of  instructions  to  committees  of  examination 
—  extracts  from  his  annual  report  to  the  Governor — such  suggestions 
as  he  may  deem  important,  with  explanations  of  the  duties  of  his 
subordinate  officers;  and  once  in  every  two  years,  a  digest  with  in- 
dex and  notes  of  all  the  laws  in  force  in  regard  io  common  schools. 

Sec.  7.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
president  and  directors  of  the  literary  fund  fc  iation^ 

through  its  executive  committee,  the  sum  of  six  hundred  dollars  per 
annum  for  four  years,  beginning  with  the  year  1859,  and  ending  with 
the  year  186.2;  Provided,  Such  appropriation  can  be  made  from  the 
literary  fund  without  diminishing  the  usual  distribution  for  common 
school  purposes,  or  injuriously  interfering  with  the  usual  operations 
of  the  literary  board,  or  of  the  common  school  system  ;  And  provi- 
ded, also,  That  the  books,  accounts  and  operations  of  the  association 
are  open  to  the  inspection  of  the  Governor  of  the  State  ;  And  this 
charter  may  be  declared  null  and  void  whenever  by  the  proper  legal. 


process,  in  the  authorized  tribunal,  it  shall  be  proved  to  have  be- 
come a  political,  sectional  or  sectarian  society,  or  to  be  engaged  as 
a  society  in  propagating  doctrines   inconsistent  with  the   peace  and 

safety  of  the  State. 

Sec.  8.  And  be  itjurther  enacted,  That  the  president  and  directors' 
of  the  literary  fund  shall  annually  appropriate  to  said  society  one 
hundred  dollars,  to  be  paid  under  the  direction  of  the  executive  com- 
mittee, in  premiums  of  not  more  than  thirty  dollars,nor  less  than  fif- 
teen each,  to  common  school  teachers  for  essays  on  such  subjects  as 
the  association  or  its  authorized   committee  shall  select. 

Sec.  9.  Be  it  further  enacted.  That  this  act  shall  be  in  force  from 
and  after  its  ratification.     [Ratified  the  23rd  day  of  February,  1861. 


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